Nyquist Mysteries
3 primary works • 4 total works
Book 1
Below the neon skies of Dayzone - where the lights never go out, and night has been banished - lowly private eye John Nyquist takes on a teenage runaway case. His quest takes him from Dayzone into the permanent dark of Nocturna. As the vicious, seemingly invisible serial killer known only as Quicksilver haunts the streets, Nyquist starts to suspect that the runaway girl holds within her the key to the city's fate. In the end, there's only one place left to search: the shadow-choked zone known as Dusk.
Book 2
In a city where words come to life and reality is infected by stories, private eye John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body... The dead man's impossible whispers plunge him into a murder investigation like no other. Clues point him deeper into an unfolding story infesting its participants as reality blurs between place and genre. Only one man can hope to put it all together, enough that lives can be saved... That man is Nyquist, and he is lost.
Book 3
In the winter of 1959, privateeye John Nyquist arrives in the village of Hoxley-on-the-Hale with only apackage of cryptic photographs, and the frail hope of finding an answer to aquestion he's been asking since his childhood.But the villagers offer littlehelp, as each day brings a twisted new rule in the name of a different Saintthat they, and Nyquist, must follow. And there are whispers of the return ofthe Tolly Man, an avatar of chaos in a terrible mask...As Nyquist struggles todistinguish friend from foe, and the Tolly Man draws nearer, he must race to finallysettle the one mystery he has never been able to solve: the disappearance ofhis father.From the singular imagination of Jeff Noon comes this dark tale of folk horror in the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated John Nyquist series.File Under: Horror Fantasy [ Everyday Saints | Not the Ravens | Fatherland | Written in Blood ]
In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down Oberon, the stolen, sentient image of faded film star Vince Craven.
As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own...
File Under: Science Fantasy [ Go Fourth | All Mad Here | Uneasy Dreams | Borderline ]
As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own...
File Under: Science Fantasy [ Go Fourth | All Mad Here | Uneasy Dreams | Borderline ]